State v. . Peterson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for murder tried before. Ferguson, J., and a jury, Fall Term, 1908, of Yancey. Defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
The solicitor entered a nol pros as to murder in the first degree. The jury conmeted the prisoner of murder in the second degree.
• The State challenged for cause a juror who was bound over to that term for an affray. The Court stood the juror aside as incompetent. Whether the reason the Court gave was correct or not his finding is not reviewablo. State v. Green, 95 N. C., 613. The prisoner cannot except to the Court excusing a juror. State v. Barber, 113 N. C., 112. The prisoner’s right is to reject, not to select. State v. McDowell, 123 N. C., 764; State v. Gooch, 94 N. C., 987; State v.…
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